The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: Adult Pacifiers?

Episode Date: August 8, 2025

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Dana Lashes of Surtruth podcast, sponsored by Keltec. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man. So a, no, I don't really want to do this one. Oh, I don't want to do this one at all. A nurse found drugs in a Florida man's back door during surgery for a stab wound. Just going to leave it like that. Florida man involved in what police believe was a drug dispute ended up behind bars because during

surgery because he went in to seek medical attention because he was stabbed. It was at St. Petersburg's Bayfront Hospital last month. The injuries required surgery. Forty-year-old Michael O'Neill was a nurse was, well, she found that he had been using his prison wallet for the lack of a better phrase to store drugs and drug paraphernalia. It was smoking gunpiece. And they said, while in surgery, she located it. And it was round tinfoil with cocaine, along with a glass crack pipe and a lighter. I can't even deal. And he posted $5,500 bond was released from custody, pled not guilty to the charges. I don't know how you can plead not guilty to these charges. This was not his first arrest. either. So next story. Moving on. Let's see here. We've got a Florida man's cross necklace

blocks the bullet from piercing his heart. This is coming from WFLA. He was shot in the chest. He credits a cross necklace for saving his life. 20-year-old Aden Perry and told it in his friend he was showing off a firearm. He accidentally fired it because he's a moron. It ricocheted off his gold necklace and became lodged in the fatty tissue of his chest. The doctor said that his necklace saved his life. So I think there's probably something to be said for wearing big gold chains maybe. But it ricocheted. It had to just hit perfectly. They said if he hadn't been wearing it, it would have pierced his lungs or his heart. So maybe, maybe he got it as a Christmas gift last year from his dad. So just saying, maybe that maybe that's a giant sign to this dude. Just FYI.

also let's see here a drug traffic and drug trafficking we also have a guy in Zephyrillas Florida an argument that began a man opened fire on a garbage truck while chasing it through Zephyrillas and this was early Friday morning that led to the guy chasing it while firing shots

and a collision that sent two men to the hospital another to jail according to Zephyrilles PD they went to Advent Health Zephyrillas the man showed up he had a gunshot wound to his right forearm He was shot by, I don't really care about the backstory of this, but a guy just was running after a garbage truck and just firing all crazy. You had to know. His name is Quinston Crozen.

You have too many sounds in your name, sir. You got to give one of them up. Nobody's allowed to have that many consonants. I know it's America, but come on. A man in Whitey Tidy's his pepper spraying a sleeping neighbor over noise complaints. Another one. It is shockingly not a village's story. It's Lauder Hill.

They said that this man was arrested. He broke into his neighbors upstairs apartment. Sprade him in the face while he slept because apparently he was snoring so loud and being loud that the guy had lived like right below him. He could hear him. So he couldn't startle him awake. So he ended up climbing up into his apartment and he pepper sprayed him in the face. It just feels like maybe he could have used your phone instead. Taking charge of your health is easier with all family pharmacy. If you've been hearing about the latest in brain and cellular health, you're not alone. Methylene Blue is making waves for supporting focus, mental clarity, memory, and mood. RFK Jr. has been talking about using it. And NAD Plus, that's your body's natural energy booster. It helps cells repair and potentially slows signs of aging. With all family pharmacy, you now have access to these cutting edge treatments. Whether you're interested in methylene blue, NAD plus, or even an emergency kit for your family, this is a pharmacy that you can trust. No corporate gatekeepers, no big pharma, middlemen, and no bureaucratic roadblocks. All family pharmacy uses 100% domestically sourced materials for all their medications, ensuring top, quality and safety. So go ahead and visit all family pharmacy.com slash Dana and use code Dana 10 for 10% off your order. And while you're there, check out their full list over 200 medications available, including ivermectin, antibiotics, and more. That's all family pharmacy.com slash Dana, code Dana 10. You hear all these stories about aliens. And no one oversees them, right? Just like Bigfoot.

We have all these cameras. We have phone cameras. Everybody's got a device strapped to their head, basically. And we don't get a single, we don't get any, anything, no images, nothing. And I, nothing about aliens. We hear all these stories of flying saucers. We don't get really good pictures. I mean, I don't see any green little green dudes waving out of windows. And do you know why that is? Because when they get in our solar system and they get near Earth and they check out what we send out on our satellites, they look at each other and they go, which translates to, What the hell? What is wrong with these people? Case in point, this New York Post piece. Stressed adults rely on pacifiers to soothe themselves.

I feel a sense of safety from childhood. This is the story. Ready? Now, it started in China, which totally makes sense. Now I think it's a commie sci-op. But they said that people are using adults. sized binkies. Once a niche quirk, the silicone soothers are now supposedly big business on Chinese e-commerce giants. They're priced budget-friendly. They're sold as sleep aids, stress relievers, even smoking cessation tools, and shoppers are gobbling them up. They said some online sellers are moving thousands each month. One Chinese buyer said, quote,

when I'm under pressure at work, I feel a sense of safety from my childhood. Now it's starting in China, but it's moving outside. It makes me think this is the next thing after Wu flu cane. Your face right now. Are you frozen? You just got your matrix froze you. But what is the, why are they doing it? I want to see what their dental bills are like.

That's what I'm saying. Like the shape of your mouth alone, you're going to have braces? You're going to have Envisaline? They're going to have buck teeth sticking out. You can just like a ski slope. It's going to be like a giant, you can tobogging down the angle of them teeths using them adult binkies. I think that I don't know. I think I would accidentally punch the vending the face if I saw them with a binky in their mouth.

Yeah. My body would go and wouldn't know what to do in my first response. But just, you know, it's like that's one of those things where you just don't know how to react. and your body is trying so hard to process it. And it's just... Are they flavored or is it like... Do they make those? I don't know.

I mean, remember ring pops? Yeah, but that was a treat for children. Yeah, I know. I mean, you could choke on them. Binkies are for babies. Yeah, but they're like silly. You're not supposed to be able to... We're talking about adults here.

I can't even believe this. I mean, this is the most Freudian thing also, I think I've ever seen, but... Why is this a thing? Well, I mean, if you're in China, maybe you're sad with the CCP, but this is one of the goofiest things ever. It's Chinese, here's what it is. It's the Chinese government trying to shut their people up. Probably literally.

Now, also with this, Gen Z, they're signing up for adulting 101 classes because they they can't handle basic life skills. They said a lot of stuff involves money. One said, I don't know how. to change a tire. I don't have a car at all. I think, you know what, I do think parents need to be more involved. I think if you're a parent, you're not teaching your kid how to change a tire. Like, do your damn job, mom and dad. Teach them how to change a tire. I mean, that's where it starts. It starts in the home. You know what I mean? It's not like these kids grew up in a vacuum.

If they don't know how to boil water or like make mac and cheese, the hell's wrong. What'd you do in your home? Did you not raise kids to understand how to do this stuff? This doesn't happen, like, all on its own. Unrelated to anything else. they said that they wanted to learn like some of them they don't know how to do laundry properly it's a new york post piece someone had to google someone told new york post they had to google what a turnip was because they were making a recipe i don't know uh it's like budgeting navigating grocery stores cheese they're offering there's like colleges that are offering adulting 101 classes because parents you know what i think some of the problem is is that we had

progressives move us away from a family unit that only required one income. And now as a result, because everybody is so busy and so stressed and so detached, I think a lot of these life skills, people aren't just sharing them. And some of it's just lazy parents. But they're just, they're not sharing them. I mean, they need to be proactive. Your kids aren't just going to suddenly wake up one day and go, oh, do I change your tire?

They're not going to, you're as a parent. You're going to introduce that concept to them. but they said that kids are growing up less dependent. And I think again, it's because we have literally shifted the paradigm over to this weird area where no one can hardly afford anything and everyone, they all live to work and really instead of, you know, kind of working to live and just kind of keeping things separate, you know, keeping things partitioned, compartmentalizing. There's no break for people.

And I think that we're also besieged every second that we are awake with noise, advertising, television, social media, everything. I don't know. I think there's something to all of it that contributes to it. It's easy to make fun of them. You know, it's really easy to be like, what do you mean you don't know how to do this stuff? What do you mean you don't know how to? But there are look, there are some Gen Xers that didn't know how to do that. And Jen Xers didn't know how to do it because their parents never showed them.

I grew up with people like that whose parents never, they were running around and had, both parents were working and they were stressed out, etc. This was the type of modern life that you were promised was going to make it easier for humanity. And instead, now people can't even do basic things. They have to outsource every single service. Every single service has to be outsourced. Nobody knows how to like fix a seam or him pants even. I mean, everybody goes to a tailor. Well, if they go to Taylor's to do it.

There's just like little things that, you know, people just don't do anymore. And then when they need that skill, it's a big issue. I don't know. Didn't ravers use pacifiers, Kane? They did. Geez. Pacifiers and glow sticks. They never choked on them, sadly.

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I mean, that's pretty cool, isn't it? The former Superman actor, Dean Kane, also reveals that he's becoming an ICE agent to support the mass deportation agenda. I kind of like that. Mass. M. M. D.A. Mass.

Deportation agenda. He's going to be sworn in ASAP amid the federal agency's recruitment drive and unprecedented. This stupid Guardian article. I'm done. I'm not even reading this article. Like, it's a legitimate thing. I would not even use this as like a thing to wipe up waste. A guardian.

I wouldn't. So, er, X out of that. also let because you know why because whenever I have a reporter that is all into self-glorification and they're like I am so important I need to let you know that my viewpoint in the first article then dine and AIDS fire because nobody cares right I just nobody cares about your stupid bias you're literally a cancer in in journalism these people are a cancer to journalism they absolutely are it's true all right so uh ooh I don't know take this what you will AP was is trying well the AP story is not coming up anymore because for some reason but they were trying to argue that somehow

Potus his the tariffs the it's a record high what were they saying it's record high export etc etc we'll come back to that because I think that's in the light of the penalties that they just applied to India which by the way they apply these penalties to India because India won't stop buying Russian gas and oil I mean you can buy perfectly wonderful American gas an oil, right? Comes in red, white, and blue. Maybe not, but it could. China is touting killer robot wolves. Anyone who thinks that these things are going to work longer than five minutes, clearly has never purchased anything made in China. Are regular wolves not killer enough? No, like apparently they're not. It's killer robot wolves. Wolves probably don't like communists. I don't know. Yeah, I'm just saying it. It's so they're, it's a, they're military wolf robots.

They're designed to stealthily approach enemies. No one believes this. fire precise shots on targets. Nobody believes that. And work in rough terrain. Literally no one believes this, says the state media. Who? Oh, the Communist Party. The communist broadcaster said that the robots, which were

an upgrade from our earlier robotic dog iterations that no one ever saw, can replace human soldiers in dangerous conditions to reduce combat casualties. You know what else can be used as a replacement for soldiers and reduce combat casualties of at least one side? A giant

Bbba Bomb. That can be used too. So China is really in an AI and a robotics race with us, but you know, they do have a disadvantage. The whole made in China. That's the thing. Anyway, so I would actually have a robot wolf as a pet. It's kind of what arbiters are in dark tight anyway. You basically have a robot wolf. That's kind of what it is. Anyway, we'll come back to that if we want to. We talked about this interstellar object twice already in the past two weeks, so I'm not going to going to read this headline. Firefighters rescued a woman who was trapped in a small chimney in San Fernando Valley. You can't pretend to be, I mean, that is a tiny chimney she got into. 30-year-old woman, she was three feet deep in the chimney. She apparently was acting erratically

before she got in the chimney and got stuck and screamed help. Stick with us. I don't know if you heard about this. This was, did you ever see slumdog millionaire came? It was this, um, I watched it like, I didn't watch it in TV. theaters, but I watched it a long time ago. It came out in 2008. Def Patel and Danny Boyle directed it. Well, he, I was reading this piece in variety where he said he would not direct slumdog millionaire again today because of quote unquote cultural appropriation and he would be looking for a young Indian filmmaker to shoot it. He said in a quote, directly, quote, we wouldn't be able to make that now and that's how it should be. It's time to reflect on all that. We

have to look at the cultural baggage we carry and the mark that we've left on the world. And at the time it felt radical. And we made the decision that only a handful of us would go to Mumbai. And we'd work with a big Indian crew and we'd try to make a film within the culture, but you're still an outsider and it's still a flawed method. And he said that kind of cultural appropriation might be sanctioned at certain times. And other times it cannot blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And he said he wouldn't do it. I really can't stand when people use cultural appropriation when they're talking about cultural appreciation. They are entirely different things. Cultural appropriation is a man pretending to a woman. Cultural celebration is loving

Bollywood films, which I do. I like Bollywood films. Don't ask me why I like Bollywood films and I hate musicals. They hit different, man. So I'm saying, it hits different. The best one is RRR. It's actually reasonable. There's several. Wait, there's several that are really good. RRR was amazing. It actually took an Oscar, legitimately deserved, for best score or best a song. that they did and it's really good anyway i don't know i can't stand other musicals though

but that's to do a film like that in that vein i mean he was working with i think his dp was indian i was trying to remember like a cinematographer was indian like how much more i mean at some point you you've got to stop like debasing yourself cultural appreciation is not the same thing as appropriation and i'm so tired of people acting like well you can't appreciate this or you can't like that because you're not of that culture or you know like i i i'm I love anime and I like Japanese food and I like a lot of the aesthetic, but that's not appropriation. That's appreciation, right? Same with Bollywood.

Like I love like the colors that are used in the textiles. That reminds me of a story on Etsy, which is like a hellscape of wokeery. They and there's like some craft circles where there was a white woman who was like working with an Indian supplier. and selling like Indian textiles on her Etsy shop and she like got bullied off of Etsy because of it. It's like there's appropriation and appreciation. Stop it. I hate people trying to run you off of liking things because you're not of the culture that it comes from. That is so asinine.

I had someone who sent me a hate mail one time telling me I shouldn't wear gold hoops and I beat them down within an inch of their life in an email, which I really do. And I'm like, oh, it's so funny for you. I know the history of gold hoops. Samarian, because if you're not Samarian, STFU, and let me just tell you really quickly in a one word sentence, why you need to not be talking about this. I'm just, it gets so aggravating. I feel like it's still happening. It should be happening less because it's like everything else has kind of dissipated in terms of wokeery but that. Have you noticed that, Kane? Like people are terrified of it. They're terrified. But nobody has a problem with St. Patty's Day.

Oh, hell. Everybody's out there saying Paddy's Day pretending they're a leprechaun. I don't think Nobody cares. You know why? Because the Irish don't care. Because they're not babies. They don't care. It's only like white progressives that care about this stuff. I didn't hear Indian people like slamming Danny Boyle for doing this film. I think they loved the fact that they were like

using so many like talents from India and costume designers and you know, cinematographers and you know, director of photography and lighting and gaffing and all of that stuff. They were just, they were liking that they could showcase that skill set. It's only white

Marxists that get super upset over this stuff. They act like they got a white night for everybody. It's asinine. So, I mean, if he thinks like that, then maybe I wouldn't want him to direct it. If you think about this, like, you couldn't have, you know how many Italians made Western films? I mean, Spaghetti Western is a phrase for a reason. That's like saying that you wouldn't have like some great films.

Like, what is it? My name is nobody is one. That's a great Western film. You wouldn't be able to have stuff like that. Just stop it. Just stop it. Just appreciate the art form for the art form and celebrate just good stories and good direction and good film and good acting. This is so stupid.

I can't do this. It's like saying something like, you know, somebody like Brian De Palma wouldn't be able to make Scarface. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's just stop it. It's just so dumb. Thanks for tuning in to today's edition of Dana Lash's Absurd Truth Podcast. If you haven't already, make sure to hit that subscribe button on Apple Podcasts. Spotify, wherever you get your podcast.